The 52 year old Alaska ferry Columbia nudges into Petersburg’s dock at 9:45pm Tuesday evening. To make the trip to Bellingham, it needs to capture two narrow passages at slack high tides: one here in the Wrangell Narrows and a second at the Seymour Narrows...
Fasten your seatbelts, as this adventure south takes many pathways and as I write this, I’m still only half way to Tucson. I leave on the Columbia Ferry and again, put up with dogs and their selfish owners who fail to understand the importance of bona-fide...
Mary Jane Colter, an architect ahead of her time, not only designed buildings for the Fred Harvey Company–as covered in the previous blogpost–but also many of the interior decorations of her buildings right down to, and including, the tableware. For those...
Grand Canyon Bound! Every time I peer into this immense void of geologic wonder and nature’s palette of colors, I am always astounded as if it’s my first discovery. And this park almost became private property excepting for the efforts of Teddy...
Time to visit Jackson Hole again–this time for the Xmas holidays and New Years! It’s just cooling off here in Tucson and it’s a good time to hawk my book for holiday gifts. First I spend a week in Petrified Forest cleaning Metaposaur...
Well, OK, a little off topic, but this is a Screech Owl that found a nice perch on my entry light here in Tucson and didn’t seem to care at all if I walked underneath him (or her) all day. By night, he had departed, ostensibly to hunt, leaving a nice pellet of...
